Day 3: Reflection
Many educators worry that their teaching presence will be diminished through online delivery and especially through asynchronous online teaching. Having gone through the resources from today that focus on teaching presence and connection, complete the following tasks for your own course:
- Reflection on your teaching and social presence: Reflect on and write out answers to the following questions:
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- What is one strategy you will use to build and maintain a teaching or social presence with synchronous components of your course?
- What is one strategy you will use to build and maintain a teaching or social presence with asynchronous components of your course?
- What is your philosophy pertaining to teaching or social presence that you aim to espouse during your course? (Hint: this may be important background information that you wish to share with your students upfront before they begin your course).
- Fostering connection: Choose one strategy for encouraging connection with your students, and build it out (e.g. Welcome page on Canvas, introductory video; syllabus component). For example, you may wish to film a short introductory video clip where you introduce yourself, welcome students, and share your teaching philosophy and plans for staying connected with them throughout the course and invite students to introduce themselves as well). Consider drawing on an optional Day 3 Course Development Challenges for inspiration